The creation of the Sub-Mariner, for the first issue of Marvel Comics in 1939, is enough to assure Bill Everett a permanent place in comic book history. Yet Everett also produced more than 400 pages of additional superhero-related stories early in the golden age of comics, and went on to co-create Daredevil, the Man Without Fear, all of which makes Bill Everett a comics legend. This gorgeously printed retrospective collects nearly 200 pages of Everett's pre-World War II superhero comics, including black and white and color work from such titles as Amazing Mystery Funnies, Amazing-Man Comics, Target Comics, Heroic Comics, and Blue Bolt Comics. These titles feature vintage Everett characters like Amazing-Man, Hydroman, Skyrocket Steele, Sub-Zero, and The Chameleon, all displaying his brilliant cartooning and energetic storytelling.

"Everett's vivid, varied work ... emanated from a man who was a lot like his most famous creation: a destructive antihero, always a little angry at the puny humans around him."—The Onion A.V. Club